Duncansburgh Parish Church, The Parade, Fort William

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/06/1980 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Fort William NGR NN 10473 74031 Coordinates 210473, 774031 — David MacKintosh, Oban, dated 1881. Gothic, orientated north-south. Bullfaced grey sneck coursed rubble contrasting tooled red ashlar sandstone dressings. North gable with large hoodmoulded, pointed-headed window with geometric tracery; to east, square, slightly projecting 3-stage tower with entrance in base. Dated shouldered lintel, with carved relief of burning bush in tympanum above under moulded and hoodmoulded pointed-headed architrave. Double leaf plank door with decorative cast-iron hinges. Angle buttresses rise to pulvinated string course at base of upper stage, which has louvred pointed-headed openings in each face decorated with nook shafts. Corbelled and crenellated wallhead. Narrow round-headed windows with geometric tracery light 4-bay flanks with alternate buttresses; gabled transepts project slightly at SE and SW, each with large window similar to that in north gable. Rose window lights south gable. Stiff leaf apex finials; slate roof. Interior; Exaggerated bracing to timber roof. Stained glass in many windows, dated 1881, 1882 and by the Abbey Studios between 1973 and 1979. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Fort William known as Duncansburgh from 1834; named after Superior, Duncan Cameron of Fassfern.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.